OWSTON HALL FLATS 1 TO 5 AND INCLUDING THE OLD HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1286676
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1968
List Entry Name:: OWSTON HALL FLATS 1 TO 5 AND INCLUDING THE OLD HALL
Statutory Address:: OWSTON HALL FLATS 1 TO 5 AND INCLUDING THE OLD HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1286676
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1968
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: OWSTON HALL FLATS 1 TO 5 AND INCLUDING THE OLD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: OWSTON HALL FLATS 1 TO 5 AND INCLUDING THE OLD HALL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OWSTON HALL FLATS 1 TO 5 AND INCLUDING THE OLD HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Owston
National Grid Reference:: SE 55001 11090

Details

SE 51 SW, SE 51 SE, 10/102

OWSTON, OWSTON VILLAGE, Owston Hall: Flats 1-5 and including The Old Hall

05.06.68

(all formerly listed as Owston Hall)

II*

Country house now 6 dwellings and partly unoccupied. Early C18, extended 1794-5 by William Lindley for Brian Cooke. Ruled cement render, Westmorland slate roof. L-shaped house of 1794: 2 storeys with basements, 1 : 3 : 1-bay entrance front with 1 : 3 : 1-bay garden front on left return adjoined on left by a mid-late C19 conservatory built on a basement range; to rear, the L-shaped earlier C18 three-storey wing encloses a courtyard entered from archway to rear of right return with single-storey outbuildings set in a quadrant forming link from archway to the 1794 range. Entrance front: deep band above exposed basement walling. Centre, set slightly forward, approached by stone steps with large side pedestals; central doorway with glazed double doors and fanlight with radial bars flanked by side lights beneath decorated frieze and segmental pediment; flanking windows, set between giant Ionic pilasters, have sunken apron panels to large sashes with glazing bars; windows of outer bays similar. 1st floor: central sash with glazing bars has fan-shaped sill brackets and architrave, sashes to other bays have projecting sills only. Continuous eaves cornice and plain frieze to central 3-bay pediment. Hipped roof with stacks set to rear of ridge and to ridge of left return. Garden front: central curved projection with 6-pane sashes to basement and deep sill band to unequally-hung 15-pane sashes; outer bays have sashes as front but set in round-arched recesses; 1st-floor windows as front. Conservatory to left (by Messenger and Co. of Loughborough, est. 1854) has possibly earlier yellow-brick plinth wall with band and sill band; polygonal central projection approached by nosed stone steps with wave-form iron balustrade; plain greenhouse glazing. Rear: (entrance front of earlier C18 wing, 'The Old Hall'): 5 bays; central doorway with sidelights beneath pedimented cornice. Sashes with glazing bars to ground and 1st floors; tripartite sash over door; 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor. On its left a curtain wall incorporates remains of C16/C17 windows, further round on left return is a basket archway into the courtyard.

INTERIOR: diamond-shaped paving to entrance hall; mahogany doorcases with garlanded friezes; plaster wall panels. Fluted Corinthian screen to stair hall, cantilevered stone staircase with wreathed handrail to wave-form iron balustrade; tripartite sash to stair window with pilasters and fanlight with radial glazing bars; landing arcading. Front-right room (dining room, now subdivided) has marble fireplace and arched recesses with drops of vines; deep frieze with baskets of fruit. The Library, oval and lit from curved bay on garden front, has 2 curved 6-panel doors with beading and roundels; glazed bookcases between with lozenge-shaped lights; ornate frieze. In rear wing (within earlier C18 range): another fine room (the old library) now subdivided but with crinoidal limestone fireplace and contemporary iron firebasket, cornice and coving. Basement retains a wooden pump with lead plaque dated 1832; furnaces nearby probably of same date.

Surviving drawings for the 1794-5 addition to Owston (Davies-Cooke Collection) bear the name Lindley and show alternative entrance doorways. Previous attribution to William Porden (e.g. Pevsner p. 389) comes from an unexecuted design exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1797. Humphry Repton's 1792/3 landscape scheme for Owston (photo-facsimile in NMR) shows a proposed site for a new house some way to the west for which drawings were prepared by Lindley in 1794; the plan outlines the L-shape of the 'old house' retained by Lindley in the final scheme. In 1827 a proposal to alter Owston in the Grecian style was submitted by P. F. Robinson to P. D. Cooke, this and an extension scheme by Woodland and Hurst were never executed.

Drawings and very detailed building records in the Davies-Cooke Collection, Doncaster Library Service Archives, King Edwards Road, Balby.

N. Pevsner, B.O.E., 1967 ed.

Listing NGR: SE5500111090

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Legacy System number:: 334966
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.